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do you see a president romney taking the side of a business, i guess, against the defense department, against the national security agency? >> guest: i'm not sure there is that kind of a brieghtd line opposition between the entities that you laid out. i think in looking to the military defense and the department and the intelligence community, i think it's simply an acknowledgment that is where the real expertise resides within the government. they have got the human capital resources that have been dealing with this in a much more proactive way for a much longer time. the issue of cybersecurity has been one that's been very greatly defined for a long time between classified networks and unnetworks. and candidly we didn't do a bunch to protect our unclassified networks almost as a purposeful strategy in closing off the networking and shutting the door and locking it to our adversary. you're telling your adversary something about what you know and how you defend your networks. so the intelligence community and the defense communities as the primary owners and operators are classified n
do you see a president romney taking the side of a business, i guess, against the defense department, against the national security agency? >> guest: i'm not sure there is that kind of a brieghtd line opposition between the entities that you laid out. i think in looking to the military defense and the department and the intelligence community, i think it's simply an acknowledgment that is where the real expertise resides within the government. they have got the human capital resources...
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by 1997, we will have cut defense by 30% since i took office. these cuts are deep, and you must know my resolve. this deep and no deeper. [applause] to do less would be insensible to progress, but to do more would be ignorant of history. we must not go back to the days of the hallow army. we cannot repeat the mistakes made twice in this century when armlessness was followed by wrecklessness and the world was purged as if it was permanently safe. i remind you this evening that i've asked for your support in funding a program to protect our country from limited nuclear missile attack. we must have this protection because too many people in too many countries have access to nuclear arms, and i -- [applause] and i urge you to pass the strategic defense initiative, sdi. [applause] there are those who say that now we can turn away from the world, that we have no special role, no special place, but we are the united states of america, the leader of the west that's become the leader of the world, and as long as i am president, i'll continue to lead in s
by 1997, we will have cut defense by 30% since i took office. these cuts are deep, and you must know my resolve. this deep and no deeper. [applause] to do less would be insensible to progress, but to do more would be ignorant of history. we must not go back to the days of the hallow army. we cannot repeat the mistakes made twice in this century when armlessness was followed by wrecklessness and the world was purged as if it was permanently safe. i remind you this evening that i've asked for...
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greta have that cabinet with two former secretariesf defense. sredels. amwastbl fofoodthrl mias of supreme importance. in fact, the disagreements among them or how and when for ld u t uted ve bars or u s. immediately after obama's election in 2008 and decided no one to take aook get the democrats ov the same e. okscod me t0's thuge enay unlike t oba ainisio. nce97he rtd sssoo ba gngf t anti-war movement of the vietnam-era. it h far few peoe, rticularlyn the o mistonengo ef bro ttillion last secretary -- last defense secretary was a republican. sure enough when obama took offi hes feereobat o was befse cr cheth bleeding jobs. atl ri ais in hentlige cnityautop jobs in his administration. so you have a democratic president'sut without the same kind of co orfe thheubnsrent . the democrats over the years have been struggling with issues pcisely the ones that these republicans took for grte in thend states does overseas in some way doom or maligned? certainly the grassroots of the party eat it dates about ethethe o for i e jud. wh iokic 2009, the legacy of the
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um, he has called, however, for greater involvement of the intelligence and defense communities, and it's officials in those intelligence and defense communities that are some of the more vocal voices in calling for some of these standards that, um, republicans in congress and the chamber of commerce and many businesses have rejected. do you see a president romney, um, taking the side of business, i guess, against the defense department and against the national security agency? >> guest: well, i'm not sure that there is that kind of a bright line opposition between the entities that you laid out. i think in looking to the military, defense department and the intelligence communities, i think it's simply an acknowledgment that that is where the real expertise resides within the government. they've got the human capital resources and have been dealing with this in a much more proactive way for a much longer time. the issue of cybersecurity has been one that's been very brightly defined between, for a long time, between classified networks and unclassified networks and, candidly, we did
um, he has called, however, for greater involvement of the intelligence and defense communities, and it's officials in those intelligence and defense communities that are some of the more vocal voices in calling for some of these standards that, um, republicans in congress and the chamber of commerce and many businesses have rejected. do you see a president romney, um, taking the side of business, i guess, against the defense department and against the national security agency? >> guest:...
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the late 80s we start working on an air defense system it's all an air defense system in case iran decided to attack one of the gcc states again in the late 90s when the iran a threat seems to rise after hobart towers, so it started working at the gulf countries again and try to force some cohesive bond and of course we've been doing it back again. it really is a partnership. if the u.s. military was going to operate in the middle east we can't do this alone. it's not only ferguson and access. post does so where does iraq fit in all of this? we have iraq somehow between pro-american and pro-iranian arabi trained maybe trying to be both, but iraq was their enemy. alistair friend of a back-and-forth, back-and-forth. iraq in gulf countries don't get along well at all. they quite profoundly disagree about whether iran is good guy or bad guy. so how would you imagine here we've engaged, tried to modernize the military, made this huge investment in bringing iraq institutions back online. how would you imagine the iraqis playing in a contingency with respect to iran? >> guest: that's a completely
the late 80s we start working on an air defense system it's all an air defense system in case iran decided to attack one of the gcc states again in the late 90s when the iran a threat seems to rise after hobart towers, so it started working at the gulf countries again and try to force some cohesive bond and of course we've been doing it back again. it really is a partnership. if the u.s. military was going to operate in the middle east we can't do this alone. it's not only ferguson and access....
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he broke bill clinton's defense record and he broke george h. w. bush's records and so on. so it's important to note that it is a multi president story. president obama's critics have been quick to jump on him for devoting so much time to fund raising, and he absolutely has broken records. but there is a very understandable reason why. what we have seen in the presidential fund-raising is an unintentional consequence of the rules of our political system that we have campaign finance rules designed to reduce corruption or the appearance of corruption, and to do that we limit the amount of money that presidents and candidates can raise from any individual or from any group. so the idea that you can't buy any election if you only give $2,500 to a candidate per election cycle but when you combine those relatively low campaign rather contribution limits within the rapidly escalating cost of campaigns, the presidents and candidates are forced to spend more and more time raising money and it's been an escalation. 20 years ago there were stories of the first president bush was a re
he broke bill clinton's defense record and he broke george h. w. bush's records and so on. so it's important to note that it is a multi president story. president obama's critics have been quick to jump on him for devoting so much time to fund raising, and he absolutely has broken records. but there is a very understandable reason why. what we have seen in the presidential fund-raising is an unintentional consequence of the rules of our political system that we have campaign finance rules...
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>> guest: it was set up by academics in the military through the what's now called the defense advanced research projects agency. so we began at number one, and back in the 90's al gore tells the senator and vice president and others promoted this idea that we would have this wonders thing called the internet and when the browsers can along it meant they were not the only people that could use it and we have what we know as today the internet. the telephone companies and the cable companies went to capitol hill and state legislatures and said we're going to build of this fabulous thing and there was a television ad that ran that i talk about where an old geezer like me but finn paulson to this motel, drops the satchel and says behind the desk king size beds entertainment, she looks at him and says every movie ever made in every language in every room. this was shot in the mojave desert. the rest of the world is doing that. the other has been made universal. america ranks 29th in the speed of its internet behind such leading industrial life of the world as moldavia and ukraine. we paid t
>> guest: it was set up by academics in the military through the what's now called the defense advanced research projects agency. so we began at number one, and back in the 90's al gore tells the senator and vice president and others promoted this idea that we would have this wonders thing called the internet and when the browsers can along it meant they were not the only people that could use it and we have what we know as today the internet. the telephone companies and the cable...
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national defense. a staunch anti-communist to play the important role in right wing into communist populist politics the late fifties and early 1960's. one of the things that led to switch parties in 1964. he was a key figure opposing labor unions. he did so well along people like barry goldwater. even though early in his career a staunch advocate of unions in south carolina. he switches in the 50's and 60's. becomes a die-hard supporters of business against lever. he also, an important role in conservative evangelicals politics. he joins the board above jones university in 1950. he does it to win votes. in the up country of south carolina. .. >> at 12:45 a.m. eastern, 945 pacific, reporting on the largest manhunt in modern california history. booktv visits the united states naval academy. politics, history, and war will be covered. visit booktv.org for a complete schedule of this week's programming and watch as all become weekend long on c-span2 and a booktv.org. up next, dakota meyer talks about the
national defense. a staunch anti-communist to play the important role in right wing into communist populist politics the late fifties and early 1960's. one of the things that led to switch parties in 1964. he was a key figure opposing labor unions. he did so well along people like barry goldwater. even though early in his career a staunch advocate of unions in south carolina. he switches in the 50's and 60's. becomes a die-hard supporters of business against lever. he also, an important role in...
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of kuwait buying over $4 billion a patriot air defense systems. we just employed more wine -- minesweepers to the gulf and we have the largest number of those cents desert storm and the gulf today and thus are not only just in aimed at iran but every possible contingency, iran, elsewhere, pirates. the one certainty we have in the middle east is you don't know what the next crisis is going to be. so you know obviously i think the military has thought through the iran problem. i think we are probably as smart about militarily dealing with iran as we have been in 25 years. but it's just not only iran. it's a number of other potential problems. >> host: no, i'm quite with you on how, the policymakers are framing the period ahead and really the iranians have a choice to make and there is a solution that would get us to you do you know, a different outcome. .. >> there is some nasty fights between the hour -- here force and the army, all lot has gone away. we worked out a lot of the kinks. >>host: you mentioned the gulf countries. are there some securit
of kuwait buying over $4 billion a patriot air defense systems. we just employed more wine -- minesweepers to the gulf and we have the largest number of those cents desert storm and the gulf today and thus are not only just in aimed at iran but every possible contingency, iran, elsewhere, pirates. the one certainty we have in the middle east is you don't know what the next crisis is going to be. so you know obviously i think the military has thought through the iran problem. i think we are...
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on climate change that award for the peace prize is a departure from the well and not sure it is a defense bill but it's their award to determine the award and the rest of us are just spectators. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: i tell you something that is not in the book directly and some little old leak to the co oblique. someone and norway what's remember now barack obama is in the dogfight maybe that isn't the right word. in 2009 the red rock star heights. you know why the dtv award? they want to come to oslo and he's the great rock star celebrity of the number one figure how do we grant president obama. the committee wanted to bask in his glory and the chairman thought they would boost him in europe, so i hear this and i think to myself that's ridiculous. i hear from the second and ninth and 15th and 25th whether it is true or not everyone thinks that i think obama is a person after the committee's own heart. i think they view him as a world view of kind of political and philosophical soul mate. ytd george w. bush was president of nightmares and president barack obama is of the
on climate change that award for the peace prize is a departure from the well and not sure it is a defense bill but it's their award to determine the award and the rest of us are just spectators. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: i tell you something that is not in the book directly and some little old leak to the co oblique. someone and norway what's remember now barack obama is in the dogfight maybe that isn't the right word. in 2009 the red rock star heights. you know why...
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and we don't believe that defense is applicable, and we certainly don't believe that the defense is applicable when the president engaged and authorize the interrogation before he got written up in from his lawyer. when you pick a lawyer action is going to give you a definition, when the definition on the face of it makes no sense, and went another justice department lawyer, upon reading this memo said, this is insane. so we think there's no real reliance in good faith by the president or his team on the advice they got from this lawyer, whom they chose a very interesting way to prepare their quote unquote defense of torture. we describe this in detail. the book goes into detail about these three areas and the criminal statutes that apply. but we have not had any effort at criminal accountability. and the question you may ask is, is there ever going to be criminal accountability? my answer to that is, that you can't give up hope. because if this president can commit acts that on the face of it appeared to be crimes, i'm not saying that they are, but appear to be, without ever having a series o
and we don't believe that defense is applicable, and we certainly don't believe that the defense is applicable when the president engaged and authorize the interrogation before he got written up in from his lawyer. when you pick a lawyer action is going to give you a definition, when the definition on the face of it makes no sense, and went another justice department lawyer, upon reading this memo said, this is insane. so we think there's no real reliance in good faith by the president or his...
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it looks as though the other side knows that a good offense is better than a good defense. the language he needs better. it is like how can you not to be perfectly honest it's a choice promise, but how can you not be pro-life? the free market, what is the opposite of a free market if and not feudalism? >> we can talk about that. they met the language of free-market -- i mean come brings about these wonderful images how can any person american either by speaking clack the democrats have done a wonderful job of staying in there.passives and not doing an offense themselves. one last thing which for some and i discovered on an app called show achaeans, where people vote on stuff. it seems the democrats on the question is what should you do, compromise or give it your all or go for a? it looks like 70% of democrats want to compromise and 80% of republicans want to go for it. >> it's an amazing device. which is a scenario built for defeat. >> they call a game theory. if you put those two groups together, who is going to win? the people who believe in compromise is part of their i
it looks as though the other side knows that a good offense is better than a good defense. the language he needs better. it is like how can you not to be perfectly honest it's a choice promise, but how can you not be pro-life? the free market, what is the opposite of a free market if and not feudalism? >> we can talk about that. they met the language of free-market -- i mean come brings about these wonderful images how can any person american either by speaking clack the democrats have...
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it looks as though the other side knows that a good offense is better than a good defense. their languaging is better. it's like how can you not -- to be perfectly honest, how can you be not pro life? the free market, what's the opposite, what's the opposite of a free market if not feudalism? >> well, we can talk about that. >> well -- the language of free market. i mean, brings up all of this wonderful images that, how can any person, american or otherwise, be against that. the democrats have done a wonderful job of staying anywhere doghouses and not doing a counterattack or doing an offense themselves. >> right. >> and one last thing, which was something i discovered on an app called show of hand, where people vote on stuff. it seems that democrats, when the question is which should you do, compromise or give it your all, or go for it, it looks like 70% of democrats want to compromise and 80% of republicans want to go for it. >> it's an amazing divide. >> which is a scenario built for defeat. >> they call it game theory. if you put those two groups together, who is going
it looks as though the other side knows that a good offense is better than a good defense. their languaging is better. it's like how can you not -- to be perfectly honest, how can you be not pro life? the free market, what's the opposite, what's the opposite of a free market if not feudalism? >> well, we can talk about that. >> well -- the language of free market. i mean, brings up all of this wonderful images that, how can any person, american or otherwise, be against that. the...
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now his answer as to what he why he did this is what we call the nixon defense. if i do it and i am president, it can't be illegal. but that argument is the essence of the military, the military dictatorship is the essence of -- because the president is not bound to obey the law and he couldn't commit any crimes that he wants. and that is exactly what the framers never intended to have happen. so, on the face of it, we have violations of the federal criminal statute with regard to wiretapping. this also should be investigated the third area that we look at is the area of torture, and this is an area in which, as i mentioned earlier, the president was exquisitely sensitive to the possibility of prosecution, and how do we know this? because there was a memo that was sent to the president by his then counsel alberto gonzalez who became attorney general of the united states. the memo said to the president, in reference to a federal statute called the war crimes act, he reminds me a little bit of when i was d.a. and looking into wiretaps of organized crime figures. bo
now his answer as to what he why he did this is what we call the nixon defense. if i do it and i am president, it can't be illegal. but that argument is the essence of the military, the military dictatorship is the essence of -- because the president is not bound to obey the law and he couldn't commit any crimes that he wants. and that is exactly what the framers never intended to have happen. so, on the face of it, we have violations of the federal criminal statute with regard to wiretapping....
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the defense the president pushed it very hard. the late '80s we start working on an integrated air defense system, kuwait buys hawk missiles as well as other ones, and it's all primarily aimed at iran at the time for an integrated air defense system many case iran decides to attack one of the gcc states. this comes up again in the late '90s when we -- again, when the iranian threat seems to rise again after kobar towers. so we start working with the gulf countries again in trying to forge some kind of cohesive bond, and, of course -- >> host: it's back again. >> guest: it's back again. it is, and it really is a partnership. i don't think -- if you look at the very early debates about how u.s. military was going to operate in the middle east back to the carter administration, there's an enduring constant that we can't to this alone. we have to have partners in the region. and it's not only just for basing and access, but it's also we just need their resources. we need their people to help us. >> host: so where does iraq fit in all
the defense the president pushed it very hard. the late '80s we start working on an integrated air defense system, kuwait buys hawk missiles as well as other ones, and it's all primarily aimed at iran at the time for an integrated air defense system many case iran decides to attack one of the gcc states. this comes up again in the late '90s when we -- again, when the iranian threat seems to rise again after kobar towers. so we start working with the gulf countries again in trying to forge some...
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it'll require a consistent defense of religious liberty. it will mean the encouragement of development and education and health, of trade and foreign investment, of people-to-people contacts. there are no guarantees, and there will certainly be setbacks. but if america does not support the advance of democratic institutions and values, who will? in promoting freedom, our methods must be flexible. change comes at different paces in different places. liberty often arrives not in leaps, but in steps. yet flexibility does not mean ambiguity. the same principles must apply to all countries. as a country embraces freedom, it finds economic and social progress. but only when a government treats its people with dignity does the nation fulfill its greatness. and when a government violates the rights of a citizen, it dishonors an entire nation. one way to encourage freedom is to highlight and honor those who make it the defining cause of their lives. laura and i had the privilege of meeting many dissidents and democracy activists at the white house.
it'll require a consistent defense of religious liberty. it will mean the encouragement of development and education and health, of trade and foreign investment, of people-to-people contacts. there are no guarantees, and there will certainly be setbacks. but if america does not support the advance of democratic institutions and values, who will? in promoting freedom, our methods must be flexible. change comes at different paces in different places. liberty often arrives not in leaps, but in...
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such departure from the will aim not a sure it's defensible but it's their award. the five committee members determine the award and the rest of us are spectators who pick at it. >> host: what did you learn about the obama prize? >> guest: when? >> host: what did you learn. >> guest: i'll tell you something that's not in the book directly. i think it's a little oblique in the book. after obama was announced, someone in norway said to me, do you know why they gave him the prize? let's remember how to that president obama is now in a dog fight, maybe that's not the right word given recent events -- for the presidency in 2009, he was at rock star heights. the great figure around the globe. and this guy tells me after the award is announced, they gave him the award, they want him tom could oslo and have this bauble to give and the world's great rock star, the biggs celebrity, the number one figure. how do we bring the u.s. president, president obama to our remote icy little capitol? we have the nobel peace prize to give him. and the committee just wanted to bask in his
such departure from the will aim not a sure it's defensible but it's their award. the five committee members determine the award and the rest of us are spectators who pick at it. >> host: what did you learn about the obama prize? >> guest: when? >> host: what did you learn. >> guest: i'll tell you something that's not in the book directly. i think it's a little oblique in the book. after obama was announced, someone in norway said to me, do you know why they gave him the...
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and then, barry goldwater and his extremism and defensive liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. and president obama's nominating speech of john kerry in 2004, which foreshadows all the themes that would then get the president reelected. and the themes he's still trying to artic late today. so it's a lot riding on this election. i think the shape of the deficit reduction package, they will forge after the votes in november to the supreme court and in many ways, elections come and go, and the supreme court is forever. and they're likely to be one, two, three, maybe vacant city over the next four years. whoever is in the white house will get to shape a lot of our public policy through who he or she -- it will be a he, through he appointed. and then, it's the historic nature of president obama's election in the first praise. -- place. recently i went and hearder have nonjordon speak. he spoken here as well and lives in the neighborhood. former head of the urban league and the portrait now hangs in the portrait gallery. he made the statement
and then, barry goldwater and his extremism and defensive liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. and president obama's nominating speech of john kerry in 2004, which foreshadows all the themes that would then get the president reelected. and the themes he's still trying to artic late today. so it's a lot riding on this election. i think the shape of the deficit reduction package, they will forge after the votes in november to the supreme court and in many ways, elections...
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she had her own consulting business and was that the legislative director at the natural resources defense council. prior to your position that nrdc she worked on capitol hill first as an aide to congressman and former ohio governor ted strickland and worked as senior staff member for current labor secretary. during her time on capitol hill had their health co-founded democratic caucus environmental message team which continues to help democratic members communicate more effectively with their constituents about environment and energy issues. heather is married with 32 beautiful children and presides in silicon valley in california. a [applause] >> good evening. thank you for joining us to celebrate nrdc action fund's first book release of "reckless: the political assault on the american environment" written by staffer bob deans. please join me in giving him a round of applause. [applause] >> bob is always a joy to work with so is good to recognize that kind of dedication and general stability in this business. so often we have snow many fights that it is nice to be dealing with the gentle
she had her own consulting business and was that the legislative director at the natural resources defense council. prior to your position that nrdc she worked on capitol hill first as an aide to congressman and former ohio governor ted strickland and worked as senior staff member for current labor secretary. during her time on capitol hill had their health co-founded democratic caucus environmental message team which continues to help democratic members communicate more effectively with their...
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today pretty much is in the code from social insurance to business regulation to rules on loans to defenses for white collar crimes and how to test them. these laws were developed out of thousands of years of experience. what we're seeing now is these big corporations, very quietly, with nobody noticing, undoing thousands of years of human experience to their benefit and to the detriment of the overall economy. >> host: is there a solution? with the state legislature? should they be -- year-round should they be paid more? should the lobbying restrictions be greater? >> guest: this is a real difficult problem. it strikes me that one of the solutions we should be having an active discussion about is public financing of elections. the two states that have tried this, maine and arizona, the incumbents get thrown out, which is surprising. the constitution gives you a right to lobby. the first amendment says, a right to petition for a redress or grievances. interestingly, does not require any response by the government. only required it accept the petition. i don't think the lobbying we're seeing
today pretty much is in the code from social insurance to business regulation to rules on loans to defenses for white collar crimes and how to test them. these laws were developed out of thousands of years of experience. what we're seeing now is these big corporations, very quietly, with nobody noticing, undoing thousands of years of human experience to their benefit and to the detriment of the overall economy. >> host: is there a solution? with the state legislature? should they be --...
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>> do you think you helped the defense? >> we will make the best case we can in some asian. >> thank you. >> i would like to take this flight to the jury right now. just kidding. i would like to call my first witness, the great hon. steve forbes. [applause] >> mr. forbes? will you be seated? >> i have a copy of how capitalism will save us:why the -- free people and free markets of the best dancer in today's economy by steve forbes. put your hand on. swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me by best book. >> i have a better book coming. it can be ordered from amazon. >> thank you for being here. i understand you own the yacht. does that make you an evil person? >> i think it makes me a person of there would like to be. >> please tell -- >> as my father likes to say money may not buy happiness but it sure helps. >> let me ask you this question. do you think getting rich is an evil pursued? >> real entrepreneurs get rich by providing needs and wants about this by providing services. if you g
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brethren don't run to the defense like we need to. offering sarah palin up is a great example. i don't care what people, conservatives, whether they love her or not, but defend her because she is out -- when she is attacked for personal reasons, defend her. when michele bachmann is brutally ripped to shreds by some of the comedians, that's their excuse, defend her. she's one of the smartest women in congress. she is cor ray joes. she has stuck her neck out. these women are sticking necks out. we have a precious girl, friend of ours who is an activist, black well, and she's trying to start up a young americans for freedom chapter, and the school has crashed down saying, no, you may not start that chapter because there's things on their website that are offensive. hilarious they let leftists set up, but not a young american for freedom institute on the campus? she's suffering. she's assaulted by all sides, but she's courageous. she got a piece yesterday on foxnews.com. ashley black well, but young america's foundation and clear booth ra
brethren don't run to the defense like we need to. offering sarah palin up is a great example. i don't care what people, conservatives, whether they love her or not, but defend her because she is out -- when she is attacked for personal reasons, defend her. when michele bachmann is brutally ripped to shreds by some of the comedians, that's their excuse, defend her. she's one of the smartest women in congress. she is cor ray joes. she has stuck her neck out. these women are sticking necks out....
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our ambassador in libya and success of the taliban afghanistan has minimally raised the issue of the defense of the nation as an ingredient in the coming election. is obama providing economic opportunity? he inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression but the president is now held responsible for a continuation of high unemployment and minimal hope for its improvement and also for increases in the debt and deficit. his job lts wislation proposals are not being well-received by republicans. the administration has not propose any innovative resolutions for the severe downturn in housing. some believe he should have supported and promoted simpson-bowles deficit reduction proposal. he has not bmeetin rtele to significantly expand economic opportunity. how has obamaarased the tobsls leadership? he attempts to communicate his vision and proposal but he has appeared so often on television that overeublosure was occurrinr he is a capable public speaker but his speeches lack the spirit he showed during his first campaign. he seems to lacversthe coficunication skills of fdr, reagan
our ambassador in libya and success of the taliban afghanistan has minimally raised the issue of the defense of the nation as an ingredient in the coming election. is obama providing economic opportunity? he inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression but the president is now held responsible for a continuation of high unemployment and minimal hope for its improvement and also for increases in the debt and deficit. his job lts wislation proposals are not being well-received...
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government is the parts and the defense and the people stamping offices, and everything you think of government does if we were to set it to zero right now, we would still have a deficit right now. that's how much the government is suggestion sucking out of the -- just sucking out of the economy. so what we need is spending reform that really pares back government, and as the literature i cite in my chapter shows contrary to what keynes said, if you're in a situation like we are where you've got unsustainably high government spending, that if you pare it back, you can get a lot of growth sometimes relatively quickly, and i think there is about another half a percent to a percent if we could just have what economists call fiscal consolidation. sadly, there are a lot of countries throughout history that have opinion as messed up as we are, and we've seen them fixing by cutting. and the third thing we need to do is stop having everything expire in december. we've got this thing coming, right? imagine you're a business person, and you've got to decide what are you going to do next year?
government is the parts and the defense and the people stamping offices, and everything you think of government does if we were to set it to zero right now, we would still have a deficit right now. that's how much the government is suggestion sucking out of the -- just sucking out of the economy. so what we need is spending reform that really pares back government, and as the literature i cite in my chapter shows contrary to what keynes said, if you're in a situation like we are where you've...
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the story is dropoff but they get dragged back in either by opponents were dragged in by the defense and i am sure they come out of the presidential debates and wondered if obama will ask a question about that. the issue is in my mind which of these gaps are ones we ought to pay attention to? do they represent a true character flaw and do they represent an incapacity to act in a way that we would like or are they just -- we all make mistakes. they have them hanging out in the public and now with the internet and youtube and places like that they are not only discriminated more broadly and quickly but there is an archival capability we can go out and find out what barack obama said in 1998 or what mitt romney said in a. by the way there wasn't one bit of coverage of the percentage in may. it was a public event, fund-raising event but nobody told the story to the media it wasn't until the media popped up they came back into the process in late august and early september. >> what mistakes have they made them that you document that are fatal? >> let me work from the current backwards a l
the story is dropoff but they get dragged back in either by opponents were dragged in by the defense and i am sure they come out of the presidential debates and wondered if obama will ask a question about that. the issue is in my mind which of these gaps are ones we ought to pay attention to? do they represent a true character flaw and do they represent an incapacity to act in a way that we would like or are they just -- we all make mistakes. they have them hanging out in the public and now...
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but there you have the secretary of defense publicly say that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent and international organizations to get approval before the united states can do something. another one is the ailing tort statute that has been going towards american corporations. the supreme court has a case right now called the coppola case for the question instead a foreign government violates international law and treatment of its own citizens and allegedly does so to help make it easier for a corporation to run a refinery at rebuild the minor sub thing, does that mean -- does that mean that the courts can directly interpret international law and applied them? the third feature is the supreme court's use of foreign law, which i think we try to address is in striking phenomenon, which is in several cases in the last two years the united supreme court has actually gone and looked at foreign law and international and said that our interpretation of the constitution is back some level guided by what the other countries in the world are doing, not because the inter
but there you have the secretary of defense publicly say that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent and international organizations to get approval before the united states can do something. another one is the ailing tort statute that has been going towards american corporations. the supreme court has a case right now called the coppola case for the question instead a foreign government violates international law and treatment of its own citizens and allegedly does so to...
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. >> one of the effective foreign policy and defense policy on the election? you mentioned the republicans may have their genesis of the eisenhower coalition and now for the first time since eisenhower you have an isolationist republicans getting a lot of votes for a place within the primary. what effect do you see on that? >> okay. issue one latino voters and immigration, the answer to describe them, know. poll after poll shows that latino voters top issues and new jobs and the issue of immigration with latino voters is one of the largest disconnect between the reality. if i have one request in the network about the debates would be please, please, stop bringing up the latino voter to ask immigration questions. it's condescending, but in 2008 to look at the exit polls 54% of latino voters said that either immigration was not an important issue to them or that it was an important issue to them and they voted republican anyway. the first time you've probably heard about but if you dig down into the exit poll numbers it is absolutely true and again become increa
. >> one of the effective foreign policy and defense policy on the election? you mentioned the republicans may have their genesis of the eisenhower coalition and now for the first time since eisenhower you have an isolationist republicans getting a lot of votes for a place within the primary. what effect do you see on that? >> okay. issue one latino voters and immigration, the answer to describe them, know. poll after poll shows that latino voters top issues and new jobs and the...
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history that somebody like tr who is a little more militaristic hate to say it or at least postpone defense in the personality pops up. >> guest: i can quote "the new york times" who said a broad smile surely eliminated the face of the globe on this price for peace with given to the most warlike defendant these united states at "the new york times." they were upset. but he had been mediated a truce and the russo japanese war 1905 that led to the portsmouth treaty in september 1905, portsmouth, new hampshire. new hampshire. he was a friend of the arbitration movement. those who wanted to be settled not by work, but in an international court in holland. he was friendly to this cause. but it is also very strong believer in deterrent and in his memoirs he wrote the best thing he did for peace is to send the u.s. battle fleet around the globe. that didn't sit well with some people. his nobel election after his presidency was on a grand tour, world two or is majestic and true. it is one of the best meditations on piece i've ever read frankly. what a writer tr was. >> host: he was an historian the
history that somebody like tr who is a little more militaristic hate to say it or at least postpone defense in the personality pops up. >> guest: i can quote "the new york times" who said a broad smile surely eliminated the face of the globe on this price for peace with given to the most warlike defendant these united states at "the new york times." they were upset. but he had been mediated a truce and the russo japanese war 1905 that led to the portsmouth treaty in...
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the story of the election is a story of such excitement and random defense that it's almost impossible to capture. we could go on for hours on just this topic but his record in american politics is extraordinarily brief. he has a term in congress at the end of which he is so unpopular he doesn't run for reelection. the thing the state legislature doesn't tell you anything about your ability to be president and he hadn't even been in the state's legislature for quite awhile before he runs a 1960. he's run for the senate twice and he's been defeated both times. basically he's a national celebrity because of the dates with douglas which at the end of the day he lost and the speech in new york nobody was scoring the debate. at the end of the day the purpose of the the date was to win the election and he didn't win the election. and a speech he gave in new york to lead the way i like to think about is we can remember barack obama's speech in 2004 in the democratic national convention that makes him a national figure in four years later without that speech he isn't a candidate so lincoln giv
the story of the election is a story of such excitement and random defense that it's almost impossible to capture. we could go on for hours on just this topic but his record in american politics is extraordinarily brief. he has a term in congress at the end of which he is so unpopular he doesn't run for reelection. the thing the state legislature doesn't tell you anything about your ability to be president and he hadn't even been in the state's legislature for quite awhile before he runs a...
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it's such a departure from the will that i'm not sure is defensible. but it's their award. the five norwegians on the committee determine the award, and the rest of us are just spectators who peck at it. >> host: what did you learn about the obama prize in the course of writing the book? >> guest: when? >> host: what did you learn about it. did you -- >> guest: i'll tell you something that's not in the book this directly. i think it's a little oblique in the book. after obama was announced, someone in norway very familiar with all of this said to me, you know why they gave him the prize? let's remember now that barack obama's now in a dog fight -- maybe that's not the right word given recent events -- for the presidency. and in 2009 he was at rock star heights. you know, the great messianic figure around the globe. and so this guy tells me after award was announced, do you know why they gave him the award? they just wanted him to come to oslo. they had this bauble to give, and he's the world's great rock star, the number one figure. how do we bring the u.s. president, presi
it's such a departure from the will that i'm not sure is defensible. but it's their award. the five norwegians on the committee determine the award, and the rest of us are just spectators who peck at it. >> host: what did you learn about the obama prize in the course of writing the book? >> guest: when? >> host: what did you learn about it. did you -- >> guest: i'll tell you something that's not in the book this directly. i think it's a little oblique in the book. after...
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then we -- senator levin and mccain have asked to go to defense authorization. i think if this bill is as important as they say it is -- and they say it is important; i know how senator levin and senator mccain feel about it -- looks like they would clear away some of this stuff that's getting in the way. but that's where we are. i think it is religionly a bridge too far to complete the defense authorization bill before we leave but we need to get on this bill. we're not going to stall around on this and spend weeks on the defense authorization bill. i have told the two managers of that bill, senator mccain and levin, that that's the case. so having said that, that's what we have to do before thanksgiving. i would like to be able to get out of here so we could go home to our states, to our families for thanksgiving early, but if we have to stay here until the day before thanksgiving, we're going to do it. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. udall: i'd as
then we -- senator levin and mccain have asked to go to defense authorization. i think if this bill is as important as they say it is -- and they say it is important; i know how senator levin and senator mccain feel about it -- looks like they would clear away some of this stuff that's getting in the way. but that's where we are. i think it is religionly a bridge too far to complete the defense authorization bill before we leave but we need to get on this bill. we're not going to stall around...
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defense and policy issues. mike is literally the busiest man at brookings, if not all of think tank, but if you go on his online bio you see literally hundreds of articles that is written well tv and radio appearances number not in the hundreds but the thousand. maybe even tens of thousands. not clear. i'm on top of that he's written several great books, the wounded john, america's armed forces, topping out in afghanistan, and the science of war. is working on a new publication entitled why nuclear arms control is still important. then we'll hear from todd harrison. is a graduate of mit, degrees in aeronautics and astronautics. he's worked in the aerospace, developing systems and technologies, also serves and use the air force reserves. he's presently senior fellow for defense budget studies at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments what he is one of the top voices on the american defense budget. he has authored multiple publications on budget trend, initiative, military personnel costs most recentl
defense and policy issues. mike is literally the busiest man at brookings, if not all of think tank, but if you go on his online bio you see literally hundreds of articles that is written well tv and radio appearances number not in the hundreds but the thousand. maybe even tens of thousands. not clear. i'm on top of that he's written several great books, the wounded john, america's armed forces, topping out in afghanistan, and the science of war. is working on a new publication entitled why...
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so it could have been what should our basic defense posture be, it could have been what should our policy toward thailand be. i mean, they got very detailed, very specific, and they would have interagency committees -- usually chaired by the state department -- get together and draft documents that were essentially nsc policy documents say what the policy should be toward this part of the world. and why and what the u.s. goals were. and then these would come up through the system, and they would go to the national security council. eisenhower would preside over this meeting. now, the nsc itself was created by the national security act of 1947. and it was established to give -- the people who pushed it wanted, essentially, to constrain the president by forcing him to meet with his primary advisers before he made decisions. because they recalled that franklin roosevelt made decisions the way he wanted to, and they didn't like that. and so, now, president truman was -- created -- was pleased when the national security council was created by law as part of the national security act of 1947, b
so it could have been what should our basic defense posture be, it could have been what should our policy toward thailand be. i mean, they got very detailed, very specific, and they would have interagency committees -- usually chaired by the state department -- get together and draft documents that were essentially nsc policy documents say what the policy should be toward this part of the world. and why and what the u.s. goals were. and then these would come up through the system, and they...
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and then barry goldwater in his extremism, defense of liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. and president obama's nominating speech of john kerry in 2004, which foreshadows all the things that we didn't get the president reelected. and the things he is still trying to articulate today. so there's a lot riding on this election. i think the shape of the deficit reduction package, that they will forge after the votes in november. to the supreme court. in many ways elections, and go, and the supreme court is forever. failure until they are likely to be three vacancies over the next four years. whoever is in the white house looking to shape a lot of our public policy through who he or she, it will be a key, through see a point. and there's also the historic nature of president obama's election in the first place, and i recently went and heard vernon jordan speak at the portrait gallery. you all know who burning is. he spoke here as well, and lives in the neighborhood. former urban me. is portrait now hangs in the portrait gallery. he made
and then barry goldwater in his extremism, defense of liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. and president obama's nominating speech of john kerry in 2004, which foreshadows all the things that we didn't get the president reelected. and the things he is still trying to articulate today. so there's a lot riding on this election. i think the shape of the deficit reduction package, that they will forge after the votes in november. to the supreme court. in many ways...
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he brought about the national security act of 1947 that created the defense department and the cia and other things. he successfully made the transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy, and he made the momentous decision to read about how he made the decision when all his advisers said, you cannot say berlin. you will have to give up on berlin. he made the decision for the berlin airlift. absolutely wrote. everything had described happened in his first term. his second term was really quite mediocre. he did not manage to maintain what i call longevity of success which is, a frothy record, and from the performance throughout a float -- eight full years or average i have. he had a couple of notable achievements. nato was in his second term. the korean war under macarthur was in his second term, but he had a sputtering economy for about the entire four years. he ended up with a stalemated war that could not win or get out of, which is political poison for any sitting president there were a series of scandals involving his presidential cronies that he brought to washington fr
he brought about the national security act of 1947 that created the defense department and the cia and other things. he successfully made the transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy, and he made the momentous decision to read about how he made the decision when all his advisers said, you cannot say berlin. you will have to give up on berlin. he made the decision for the berlin airlift. absolutely wrote. everything had described happened in his first term. his second term was...
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own consulting business and previously was the deputy legislative director at the natural resources defense council. prior to her position at nrdc, had worked on capitol hill as an aid to ted strickland. she then worked as a senior staff member for current labor secretary told us always. during her time on capitol hill, heather cofounded the democratic caucus team, which continues to help democratic members communicate more effectively with constituents about the environment and energy issues. heather is married with two beautiful children and resides in california. please welcome heather. >> good evening, thank you for joining us this evening to celebrate the nrdc action fund book release. "reckless: the political assault on the american environment", written by stafford bob deans. please join me in giving him a round of applause. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] bob is always a joy to work with, so it is always good to recognize that kind of dedication. so often we deal with so many fights, that it is nice to be dealing with a gentleman. also come even better, to be dealing wit
own consulting business and previously was the deputy legislative director at the natural resources defense council. prior to her position at nrdc, had worked on capitol hill as an aid to ted strickland. she then worked as a senior staff member for current labor secretary told us always. during her time on capitol hill, heather cofounded the democratic caucus team, which continues to help democratic members communicate more effectively with constituents about the environment and energy issues....
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then barry goldwater and his extremism and defense of liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. president obama's nominating speech of shaun carey in 2000 for which foreshadows all of the things that would then get the president reelected and the things he is still trying to articulate today said there is a lot on this election. the shape of the deficit reduction package they will forge after the votes in november to the supreme court and in many ways elections come and go and the supreme court is forever and they are likely to be one, two, three mabey vacancies over the next four years and whoever is in the white house will get to shape a lot of our policies through he/she, probably he appoints. then there's also the historic nature of president obama's election in the first place, and i recently went and her vernon jordan speak at the gallery. you all know who he is. she's spoken here as well and lives in the neighborhood. the former head of the urban league and his portrait now hangs in the portrait gallery. he made the statement that
then barry goldwater and his extremism and defense of liberty is no vice. his speech is certainly worth revisiting. president obama's nominating speech of shaun carey in 2000 for which foreshadows all of the things that would then get the president reelected and the things he is still trying to articulate today said there is a lot on this election. the shape of the deficit reduction package they will forge after the votes in november to the supreme court and in many ways elections come and go...
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i would point to ongoing defense articles, high and defense articles of various sorts including those used for surveillance and recognizance of various types. there's a particular ongoing issue having to do with a conflict of u.s. law without jerry and concern for sovereignty that remains a significant issue that again we are working here and i see signs of progress there. finally maybe just because i'm from california, i would cite the potential for agribusiness as well. so with a lot of money to be made in algeria and not to sound too much like one part of the u.s. political sector of the government would just get out of the way little bit, things i think would then rapidly improve. when we think about ways to do business in algeria, the areas where there is the most potentially tend to think about sort of a three-part van diagram. this would be an area in which the algerian people really want whatever it is. the government is willing and seized strong views to do whatever that is in we the united states are really good, almost uniquely good, that thing and so that is where you get
i would point to ongoing defense articles, high and defense articles of various sorts including those used for surveillance and recognizance of various types. there's a particular ongoing issue having to do with a conflict of u.s. law without jerry and concern for sovereignty that remains a significant issue that again we are working here and i see signs of progress there. finally maybe just because i'm from california, i would cite the potential for agribusiness as well. so with a lot of money...
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i also want to thank the former directors of defense intelligence agency with us today. i have been guided and inspired by your service and remain deeply grateful for the advice and counsel you have given me over the years and look forward to your collective wisdom as i take my position among director clapper as affectionately referred to as the ranks of geezerd geezerdom. special thanks to the advisory board. you brought special perspective and insight to our deliberations and i appreciate very much your willingness to serve. additionally each of you is a special friend both personal and professional and i have been a better director because of your advice and counsel. to the men and women of d.i.a. thank you for your high be professional service to the nation. serving as director of this agency has been a great danner -- honor and profound personal privilege. with some of the nation's most important sensitive missions you rise to the daily challenge and demonstrate a high standard of selfless public service. to my family, my wife, marta and mike five children and their
i also want to thank the former directors of defense intelligence agency with us today. i have been guided and inspired by your service and remain deeply grateful for the advice and counsel you have given me over the years and look forward to your collective wisdom as i take my position among director clapper as affectionately referred to as the ranks of geezerd geezerdom. special thanks to the advisory board. you brought special perspective and insight to our deliberations and i appreciate...
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the department of defense just published a report by the defense. in fact the report was asked for by ash carter when he was assistant secretary, value deputy secretary. so i asked carter to ask for this report. a money till you what i think happy. i'm going to be very cynical here. so don't be too shocked. i think the defense science board inadvertently hired some contract or seduce eddie who actually did a study because the people who sign these documents when you get to the pentagon unit that that people are saying these documents have nothing to do with actually what the study is. and they were so careless. icq is because i am describing the motive of concealing information from you the american people. they were so careless that one the unclassified version of this document was put out, the inadvertently spilled the beans. so i tell you what this document that the deputy secretary of defense is not out there in the open and shut recipient e-mail i will send you the letters that her colleague and i wrote to national security adviser just a month
the department of defense just published a report by the defense. in fact the report was asked for by ash carter when he was assistant secretary, value deputy secretary. so i asked carter to ask for this report. a money till you what i think happy. i'm going to be very cynical here. so don't be too shocked. i think the defense science board inadvertently hired some contract or seduce eddie who actually did a study because the people who sign these documents when you get to the pentagon unit...
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we also assist the abuse spiritually and legally in the defense of liberty. we work with leaders and individuals like the blind self-taught lawyer, chen guangcheng, and we hope to see them -- him and his family in the united states very soon. there must be something in the dusty air of midland, texas, that inspires individuals to stand up for what is right. the community they are graciously welcomed my family and me and has taken up our cause. it is perhaps no surprise that laura bush, a native of midland, texas, shared that community's commitment of human dignity and freedom. mrs. bush frequently said that freedom is universal. that god is the source of our freedom. and let every man, woman, and child, regardless of country or creed, is endowed with fundamental human rights. whether speaking out against the oppression of women in afghanistan and campaigning for the efforts to bring democracy to burma, mrs. bush demonstrates her convictions and beliefs with actions. it is my pleasure and honor to introduce my fellow friend, mrs. laura bush. [applause] [applau
we also assist the abuse spiritually and legally in the defense of liberty. we work with leaders and individuals like the blind self-taught lawyer, chen guangcheng, and we hope to see them -- him and his family in the united states very soon. there must be something in the dusty air of midland, texas, that inspires individuals to stand up for what is right. the community they are graciously welcomed my family and me and has taken up our cause. it is perhaps no surprise that laura bush, a native...
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but find ways to air their defenses defenses in a productive way. i think ultimately has the potential to attract outsiders as well sort of as a testament to the fact that we take our commonalities seriously and we take our differences seriously as well. as i said id owe sin karattic. >> mike, you look like you had a comment. >> i strongly agree with the points that ross makes about the political sized faith in the book. in the broader public role. but it's really interesting side effects much conservative brings in america -- conservative politics in america that you had, you know, the overcoming of one of the most durable decisions in the american public life. the catholic protestant divide, was often an violent divide in american life. you had the 19th century riots in philadelphia that killed dozens of people. you had church burnings, you had nones assaulted in the street. it was a deep division in american life. it's an interesting effect that politics can have. particularly in the 1980s you had conservative catholic and conservative protestant
but find ways to air their defenses defenses in a productive way. i think ultimately has the potential to attract outsiders as well sort of as a testament to the fact that we take our commonalities seriously and we take our differences seriously as well. as i said id owe sin karattic. >> mike, you look like you had a comment. >> i strongly agree with the points that ross makes about the political sized faith in the book. in the broader public role. but it's really interesting side...
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his first term was a defense, though probably not exemplars. the interstate commerce act was passed. it was an important piece of legislation that cleveland did not identify himself with it. he considered the civil war a disability pension program that he had become very serious about. but he presided over expensive labor unrest during his time just like they were the president to get out of, it is a political poison for a sitting president. he also promised to reduce terror, which he promised to sort through. it was written in that record. the second term with a clear failure. characterized by persistent economic downturn, extensive bank failures, corporate bankruptcy, demonstration of the farm sector in the kind of in her inner response on the part of the president. so overall, his record is minimal at best and the voters probably had it right, i think maybe the historians were a little bit off the mark on that one. why was he eighth? i don't even know. but historians can be influenced by various things, a few years before that first poll in
his first term was a defense, though probably not exemplars. the interstate commerce act was passed. it was an important piece of legislation that cleveland did not identify himself with it. he considered the civil war a disability pension program that he had become very serious about. but he presided over expensive labor unrest during his time just like they were the president to get out of, it is a political poison for a sitting president. he also promised to reduce terror, which he promised...
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>> will be bringing out a book of the defensive wartime letters of walter cronkite. it will be out in about a year. could not be more pleased. in fact, i defy anyone to read the letter that walter cronkite wrote to his wife on christmas eve 1943, and not tear up. chips sister and i were looking at it in austin. we both started blubbering. that's okay, because chips old man was a blubber, too. early on, chip and i were exchanging e-mail notes over some of the classic cbs news videos that his dad had been part of. these historical recreation films. this one happened to be a dramatic recreation of events december 7, 1941. nathan, could you run a little -- >> located in the cbs newsroom here in new york. the regularly scheduled news program is now on the air. >> a so this is folks in -- >> that's the guy who used to be on i dream of jeannie. [laughter] so i immediately e-mailed chip to that effect. as soon as i hit send, god, he's a cronkite. he's going to think i'm a dweeb and i just shot my credibility with this guy. the program wasn't even on cbs. so i was sitting the
>> will be bringing out a book of the defensive wartime letters of walter cronkite. it will be out in about a year. could not be more pleased. in fact, i defy anyone to read the letter that walter cronkite wrote to his wife on christmas eve 1943, and not tear up. chips sister and i were looking at it in austin. we both started blubbering. that's okay, because chips old man was a blubber, too. early on, chip and i were exchanging e-mail notes over some of the classic cbs news videos that...
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he runs the defense issues. tran-sixes little league if you go online from you can read the hundreds of thousands of articles he has written. on top of that, he has written several great books. the wounded giant, america's armed forces and the nation of posterity. in the science of war. he is working on a new publication with steve pfeiffer entitled why nuclear arms control is more important. next we have marvin kalb. he served in the u.s. air force reserve. he presently is a senior fellow for the defense budget studies at the strategic budget assessments. he is one of the top voices on the defense budget and modernization initiatives from the defense industrial base, and finally, we will hear from a scholar at brookings. marvin kalb is a graduate of city college of new york with a doctorate in russian history. he left to join the moscow state department in 1956, which then led to a 30 year career in journalism. with both cbs and nbc news come to serve as chief diplomatic correspondent. and moderator of "meet th
he runs the defense issues. tran-sixes little league if you go online from you can read the hundreds of thousands of articles he has written. on top of that, he has written several great books. the wounded giant, america's armed forces and the nation of posterity. in the science of war. he is working on a new publication with steve pfeiffer entitled why nuclear arms control is more important. next we have marvin kalb. he served in the u.s. air force reserve. he presently is a senior fellow for...
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being placed in germany where they thought maybe they were trying to make germany a workaround for our defense. so on and so on and so forth. in the person's life, remembered collected images, conflicted images, they're all there in one form or another, however degraded or. so which of our images of american collected over 250 years, actually before the. your images place, places a fascination for people in europe, especially well before the founding of the republic. images wealth when the confused doors arrived around santa fe in the 16th 16th century they were looking for gold. this was the place where the streets were paved in gold, those immigrants who moved here in the 19th century. all we have seen as a place of love an opportunity. democracy and freedom that the fellow in benghazi talked about, that dates back to 1776, in the early. user images that we promote, we advertise in, we sell them but we don't have to. i remember being in tiananmen square in beijing in 1989 during the demonstrations, and my wife, nancy, and i went down to the square. we talked to people, largely young people t
being placed in germany where they thought maybe they were trying to make germany a workaround for our defense. so on and so on and so forth. in the person's life, remembered collected images, conflicted images, they're all there in one form or another, however degraded or. so which of our images of american collected over 250 years, actually before the. your images place, places a fascination for people in europe, especially well before the founding of the republic. images wealth when the...
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you are loses [inaudible] because you are on the defensive. the less you are western. the more you think you are muslims. that's wrong. that's completely wrong. so i think that we need to come with this critical to be equipped with this and you know what you can do having voices coming from this being saying i'm practice i muslim. the principle i'm have candidating and be involved in the discussion. not let the people tell us what is the fry slawfm and the right islam. we have to advocate. and the last question about dealing with power. of course. the [inaudible] and some of the literalist. this is an old tradition an old tradition [inaudible] you have it in buddhism. that when you are dealing with power, if you are serious about the religion you never resist power, you never challenge the power because this power is given by god. you have religion [inaudible] saying if you are dealing, you better deal with the bad leader than to create the -- [inaudible] is going to be worse than better stability than revolution. and you have this. so we have interpretation. you have
you are loses [inaudible] because you are on the defensive. the less you are western. the more you think you are muslims. that's wrong. that's completely wrong. so i think that we need to come with this critical to be equipped with this and you know what you can do having voices coming from this being saying i'm practice i muslim. the principle i'm have candidating and be involved in the discussion. not let the people tell us what is the fry slawfm and the right islam. we have to advocate. and...
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what's it take from the defense department perspective, and i'm going to focus on the defense department initially, and then we can use that as an analogy to look at what you have to do for the country. so the first thing is building a defensive architecture. we've talked about that within dod. when you, when we talk about building a defensive architecture, there are some things that we can and, i this this -- and i think, must do. one of those is, in my opinion, going to the cloud, a thin, virtual i.t. infrastructure that is much more defensible than what we have today. now, many of you know from just reading that the cloud's not perfectly secure either. we know that the system that we're on today is not secure. 15,000 enclaves, you have seen that. each of those enclaves with system administrators that can patch those at their frequency which insures that if humans are involved, the probability that somebody makes a mistake and, hence, there's a vulnerability is almost one. we should reduce that vulnerability by going to thin, virtual cloud what we can do is have the computer update tho
what's it take from the defense department perspective, and i'm going to focus on the defense department initially, and then we can use that as an analogy to look at what you have to do for the country. so the first thing is building a defensive architecture. we've talked about that within dod. when you, when we talk about building a defensive architecture, there are some things that we can and, i this this -- and i think, must do. one of those is, in my opinion, going to the cloud, a thin,...
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the department of defense just published a report by the defense science board. in fact, the report was asked for by ash carter when he was assistant secretary. now he's deputy secretary. and so ash carter asked for this report. and let me tell you what i think happened. i'm going to be very cynical here, so those -- don't be too shocked. i think the defense science board inadvertently hired some contractors to do the study who actually did a study. because the people who signed these documents when you get up to the pentagon, you know the people who sign these documents have nothing to do with, actually, what the study is. and they were so careless -- i say careless because i'm ascribing a motive of concealing information from you, the american people -- they were so careless that when the unclassified version of this document was put out, they inadvertently spilled the beans. so let me tell you what this document that the current deputy secretary of defense asked for and is now out there in the open. incidentally, send me an e-mail, i will send you the letters
the department of defense just published a report by the defense science board. in fact, the report was asked for by ash carter when he was assistant secretary. now he's deputy secretary. and so ash carter asked for this report. and let me tell you what i think happened. i'm going to be very cynical here, so those -- don't be too shocked. i think the defense science board inadvertently hired some contractors to do the study who actually did a study. because the people who signed these documents...
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you are hurting defense. we wouldn't necessarily accept any cut anywhere in the education budget hurts education or that any cut anywhere in the welfare budget would necessarily hurt social welfare. but when it's defense, a lot of keys accept that line of -- conservatives accept that line of reasoning. secondly, a lot of conservatives saying well, the beneficiaries of this defense spending say it would be bad, therefore, obviously, we can't cut this spending. but that's not logic conservatives would accept with any other kind of government spending. when teachers say, obviously, the best thing we can do to stimulate the economy is hire more teachers, and the answer to that is, duh, of course they would say that, they're teachers. i think the best thing to stimulate the economy would be to hire more conservative journalists. [laughter] i think it's just self-evident that that would work. and that's logic that conservatives reject with most other forms of federal spending, but when it comes to defense spending,
you are hurting defense. we wouldn't necessarily accept any cut anywhere in the education budget hurts education or that any cut anywhere in the welfare budget would necessarily hurt social welfare. but when it's defense, a lot of keys accept that line of -- conservatives accept that line of reasoning. secondly, a lot of conservatives saying well, the beneficiaries of this defense spending say it would be bad, therefore, obviously, we can't cut this spending. but that's not logic conservatives...